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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 22, 2011 5:54 AM
We’ve observed a lot of western companies looking to cash in on the explosive growth of China’s mobile population by taking their products into the country. Now here’s an example of a Chinese giant looking shop its own mobile services abroad: the internet portal Tencent is now distributing its QQ…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 8, 2011 12:54 AM
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: —China Mobile/iPhone: A report alleges that China Mobile and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) have signed a deal for the iPhone 4 to debut with the operator at the end of October, which could give a boost to the device in…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 11, 2011 8:15 AM
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
—GetJar: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is antsy about GetJar’s use of “app store,” and GetJar looks like it is trying to fight back. (via GetJar blog)
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Ingrid Lunden
May 11, 2011 8:57 AM
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: the latest tally on Android malware; GetJar buys an app discover and metrics provider, Infrinity; Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility buys video content delivery specialist SunUp Systems; and inMobi launches a payment service on its ad network and ties up…
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Tom Krazit
Mar 31, 2011 5:25 PM
GetJar and Opera have resolved their differences over the Opera Mini browser, and it’s now back in GetJar’s app store for downloads, according to a GetJar blog post cheekily titled “Soap Opera.”
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 22, 2011 8:47 AM
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: T-Mobile makes more 4G announcements; some numbers on what phone people plan to buy next; and the price of posting a Deal on Facebook
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 9, 2011 10:28 AM
A response from Opera, which today got ejected from the GetJar app store for launching its own app store via its browser: Opera is “still in dialog” with GetJar and are “working to find solutions.” But asked about the main priority for Opera at the moment, “Having an app store…
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Ingrid Lunden
Mar 9, 2011 5:31 AM
Turns out it’s not only the native app stores from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android/Google (NSDQ: GOOG) that get a little hot under their collars when they sense competition from those publishing apps in their app markets. Today GetJar announced that it has rejected the Opera Mini browser from its…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 15, 2011 6:19 AM
The strong third player in apps, GetJar, has today announced that it has picked up a massive $25 million round in a third round of funding, in a strong endorsement of the cross-platform app store model that does not come from a single device or OS company like Apple’s App…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 4, 2011 5:30 AM
This week, news about non-native app stores was a bit like a proverbial bus: you wait for ages, and then two announcements come along at once. A new solution from Openwave (NSDQ: OPWV) and GetJar; and a rebranded white-label store, Appia, formerly known as PocketGear, the multi-platform app store backed…
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 10, 2010 3:50 PM
Is this a sign of AT&T (NYSE: T) preparing for the day it loses its exclusive hold on the iPhone in the U.S.? The operator has become the latest carrier partner for GetJar, which runs a store that offers a catalog of 75,000 mobile apps covering just about every other…
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Tricia Duryee
Oct 5, 2010 8:00 AM
San Mateo, CA.-based GetJar has concocted a plan to buy mobile games from developers and then turn around and give them away for free to customers.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jun 24, 2010 12:01 AM
Fast-growing mobile app store GetJar, which says it has had more than one billion apps downloaded from its store to date, making it second in size only to Apple’s app store, has raised $11 million in a second round of funding. GetJar’s app store includes about 70,000 apps for all…
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Tricia Duryee
Mar 24, 2010 9:00 AM
As the trend moves toward more applications and content stores, GetJar has benefited. The independent, Lithuanian-based application has partnered with Rogers in Canada, just a month after landing its highest profile deal with Sprint (NYSE: S) in the U.S. GetJar has signed up others worldwide with Carphone Warehouse, Sony (NYSE:…
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 10, 2010 8:29 PM
Sprint (NYSE: S) is partnering with GetJar, an independent Lithuania-based application store, to offer thousands of free applications on a variety of its handsets. Release. The partnership with Sprint marks GetJar’s highest profile agreement in the the U.S. to date, however, the relatively under-the-radar company has signed up others worldwide…
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 4, 2010 3:00 AM
If all this world needs, it is a few more mobile application stores. GetJar is now letting carriers, retailers and other companies, launch a store using its catalog of thousands of applications. One of the first to use the white label service is The Carphone Warehouse, the mobile phone retailer…
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Tricia Duryee
Aug 29, 2008 4:07 PM
GetJar, which distributes free mobile applications to consumers on the Internet and over the phone, said it is branching out its business by building application storefronts for wireless carriers. A few months ago, that would have been unheard of because carriers typically want to own the relationship with their subscribers.…
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